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Our readers write about Andy Petrowski, Niagara Falls' city council feud and hunters.

Mr. Petrowski, do unto others

Coun. Andy Petrowski’s religion seems to be a black hole of sin, guilt, intolerance and self-righteousness.

Where is love, joy, understanding and respect for others?

Something he neglects to quote from the New Testament is the advice to treat others as you wish to be treated. That works so well that every religion has expressed a version of it — sometimes worded as “Do unto others as you would be done by” or “Do not do to others what you would not wish done to you.”

What better advice could any religion offer as a way to live peaceably in the world?

Doreen M. Peever

St. Catharines

Probe of council feud appalling

An expenses of $47,000 to say what two grown-ups should know already … you say something you shouldn’t, apologize, accept and offer forgiveness, and move on.

That $47,000 could have fed a lot of people at the Community Outreach or put a lot of food on the shelves of the food bank.

What’s happened to common courtesy and respect? I’m embarrassed for our city council.

Louise Huisbrink

Niagara Falls

Hunters make people suffer

Columnist Lorne Gunter recently wrote that “hunters using rifles sometimes only wound and their target can suffer a long while before the hunter is able to put it out of its misery,” and further he lays out a detailed sickening account of a Josh Bowmar former collegiate javelin athlete spearing a mature black bear for “his testosterone and fuelled euphoria.”

People, what is wrong with Canadians of today?

On one hand there are glory stories of welcoming Syrians here. But soon the Syrians like the rest of us will be forced to hear the loud raucous sounds of hunters’ rifles and wildlife confused and frightened.

The Syrians have come to Canada for peace away from war conditions now they will know Canadian hunters make wildlife and caring compassionate persons suffer and while the others simply allow it.